*Dev in his 40's from our counter-part office.

Me: Here's my SSH keys.

Dev: What's this?

Me: SSH keys. Give me access to the repository.

Dev: We don't use any version control here. Let's just use FTP or Remote Desktop and just download the codes.

Damn... Are you ok now?

Hmmm. That's why my senior dev in his 50s-60s does not want to use repositories. Tsk!

Okay, remember, if you bury them after you killed them horribly when (yes, when not if) the entire project burns up and months of work are down the drain because some hard drive died put a dead rabbit 1,5m above them. The cops will think the dogs sniffed the rabbit and won't find the corpses so you can switch to a company with effective version control.

@Photon156 Both. you know what's worst? Instead of having commit messages, he even asked me to send him an email if i updated / change something on the source code.

Still the most painful thing about this rant is "codes".
But yeah, the rest of it is terrible as well.

These guys need shock therapy. It's the only way.

I hope you didn't give him your private key...

@bepoXY That's traumatic

@Photon156 I agree. You could technically still do "pulls" from the ftp on a separate branch and then run a merge and check for conflicts that way?

Hey, let's not discriminate by age now, shall we?

agree, set up quietly a propper git repo, win over the other devs.
write a script that watches the changes on that ftp server via ssh.

@heyheni I find this to be the best way to go

Same here! No GIT. Backup only on USB-Sticks! O.O

It takes 5 seconds to install git, 5 seconds to git init, 10 seconds to git config your name and email. You've already surpassed USBs.
Now it takes about 5 minutes to setup a Bitbucket and you have now surpassed any sort of distribution method involving zips and USBs.

Svn and CVS has been around forever. Age isn't a reason nor an excuse for it.

I wonder if we in 50 years are getting weird looks if we still use git..

I just don't understand how or why anyone would want to work without some form of source control. Seriously what do they do when some idiot pushes shit code? How do you tell who did what? How do you see previous changes? It's fucking insanity!

@hash-table 👏✊👍

OP may not have meant "he doesn't understand version control because he's old." He may have just meant, "You have more experience than me and you still don't use version control?"